Jamaica Track & Field News & Updates

Several Jamaicans competed yesterday in events at the Brussels Diamond League meeting in Belgium. From a Jamaican perspective, the highlights of the day were: (1) Usain Bolt clinching the overall Diamond League 100m title with a narrow win over Nesta Carter (2nd) and Kemar Bailey-Cole (3rd); (2) Kemar Bailey-Cole doing a new personal best time of 9.97 seconds in that 100m race; (3) Yohan Blake dominating the 200m race, winning in a time of 19.54s ahead of his training partner Jason Young and (4) Kaliese Spencer being confirmed as the overall Diamond League winner in the women’s 400m hurdles race which she won.

Below we’ve detailed the results of all the events in which Jamaicans participated earlier today at the 2012 Brussels Diamond League:

Several Jamaicans competed earlier today in events at the Lausanne Diamond League meeting in Switzerland. The highlight was Usain Bolt winning the 200m event in a time of 19.58 seconds (new meet record), and Yohan Blake winning the 100m in a personal best time (and meet record) of 9.69 seconds. With this time, Blake is now the joint second-fastest man in history.

Below we’ve detailed the results of all the events in which Jamaicans participated earlier today at the 2012 Lausanne Diamond League: